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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 102, Issue 3 629-642, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
S Yonemura and TD Pollard
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD 21205.
We used several fixation protocols and a panel of monoclonal antibodies to re-examine the localization of myosin I and myosin II in Acanthamoeba. Two monoclonal antibodies that bind to the head of myosin II stain a range of particles in the cytoplasm. The smallest and most numerous cytoplasmic particles are about the same size and intensity as myosin II minifilaments and are distributed throughout the endoplasm. The largest particles stain like myosin II thick filaments and are concentrated in the cleavage furrow of dividing cells and in the tail of locomoting cells. Five different monoclonal antibodies that bind to the myosin II tail also stain cytoplasmic particles but with a limited range of intensity. None of the myosin II monoclonal antibodies stains the contractile vacuole or plasma membrane. Two monoclonal antibodies to myosin I gave punctate cytoplasmic staining that did not correspond clearly to any of the phase-dense particles in the cytoplasm. In many, but not all, locomoting cells, the myosin I staining was concentrated at the leading edge. Both myosin I antibodies stained a single cytoplasmic vacuole of variable size that was presumed to be the contractile vacuole. The antibody that binds myosin IA but not myosin IB stained novel intercellular contacts and the antibody that binds both myosin IA and myosin IB stained the plasma membrane, especially the tips of filopodia.
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